Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting the German counter-blockade, Britain was handicapped by all but one of the following: 1. Her lack of destroyers...
...Wife of famed Correspondent Marcel W. Fodor, author of Plot and Counter-Plot in Central Europe...
...President's order was not only an opening gun in the long-expected economic duel between the U.S. and her totalitarian enemies. It was also an important counter-espionage measure. Spying is a costly business, must be paid for in hard cash. Cutting off Axis funds, said the White House statement, will "prevent the use of the financial facilities of the United States in ways harmful to national defense...
...neatest little spy stories ever uncovered broke into print last week in Los Angeles. Arrested by FBI men were two dapper little Japanese and Al Blake. U.S. citizen. Al turned out to be no spy but a hero: he had pulled off an amateur job of counter-espionage that would have made a professional spy turn green with envy...
...element by its radioactivity is up to one million times as sensitive as by chemical analysis. The radioactivity can be detected by killing an animal after it has eaten radioelements, then assaying the radioactivity of its various tissues. It can also be detected by placing a Geiger counter, a device which measures radioactivity, over a part of the body where the tracer elements are suspected so that the metabolic ebb & flow of the tagged substance can thus be observed while the subject is alive. Or the detection can be accomplished by taking paper-thin slices of plant or animal tissue...